Renaissance - Chapter 11 (sec. 1-4)

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  1. 4. Wealthy merchants & bankers helped to promote learning & the arts by becoming __.
  2. 5. The ancestors of William the Conqueror.
  3. 8. Three key ideas during the Renaissance were humanism, secularism, and __.
  4. 13. Italy was a better place for ___ (another word for trade or business) growth than other medieval European countries because of its geographical location.
  5. 14. Cervantes’ book which is considered the 1st major work of Spanish literature. (2 words)
  6. 15. A type of manual that was popular reading material during the Renaissance.
  7. 16. __ style churches had larger windows and fewer walls with increased height than other medieval churches.
  8. 18. Everyday spoken language of the people.
  9. 19. He wrote Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.
  10. 21. The view that religion did not have to be the center of human affairs.
  11. 26. In More’s Utopia the city was governed by __.
  12. 27. As a result of how wealthy merchants spent their money, __ (city) became a showcase of Renaissance art & architecture.
  13. 28. Machiavelli’s book about how to get, keep & lose political power. (2 words)
  14. 29. The mass printing of the __ had the greatest impact on literacy rates.
  15. 30. The system of belief that says people should give up worldly desires and seek enlightenment.
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  1. 1. The Tale of Genji written by Murasaki Shikibu, a __, is considered to be one of the first novels.
  2. 2. People in the Muslim culture valued literacy because it was important for them to read the __, and therefore literature flourished.
  3. 3. The author of In Praise of Folly which used satire to criticize the Church.
  4. 6. The Last Judgment was painted by __.
  5. 7. Block printing traveled to Europe from China by way of __ traders.
  6. 9. Viking invaders from ___ caused great disorder in Western Europe after Charlemagne’s empire collapsed.
  7. 10. A large, single printed sheet that was considered the earliest form of newspapers.
  8. 11. Dante Alighieri’s work, The Divine Comedy, was significant because it was written in Italian, not __
  9. 12. The word __ means non-religious.
  10. 15. One of its benefits was that it could be used over and over again.(2 words)
  11. 17. Alberti referred to architecture as a “social __” because it was a blend of beauty & usefulness for the improvement of society.
  12. 20. Most medieval art dealt with __themes.
  13. 22. Renaissance painting showed __-looking figures.
  14. 23. Church officials begin to __ certain published works because the wanted to stop the growing criticism of the Church.
  15. 24. One reason Italy is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance is because it did not have a strong __ system.
  16. 25. Lorenzo de’ ___ was the head of a wealthy banking family.